Volunteer Profile

Victor

Owuor

Languages:

English

Swahili

French

August, 1990

Bio:

Victor Owuor has two years of experience in environmental management, specifically focusing on forest management and conservation and on industrial safety and environment. Currently, Victor is an Assistant Secretary at Busara Ni Sisi, a slum-based youth organization where he focuses on developing, documenting, and reporting the group's activities and mobilizing slum youth to indulge in financial inclusion activities ranging from table banking to emergency funding, in addition to waste management programs adopted by the group. Victor also has over six years of experience in voluntary community service, focusing on conservation activities, community extension programs, and visits to children's homes through youth-led initiatives. Victor holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies (Community Development) from Kenyatta University, where he focused on the adoption of alternative energy in Kenya's tertiary institutions. Victor is driven by the urge to see sustainable communities and a healthy environment through better management and administration of public resources. By working with these communities, he envisions a self-reliant planet.

Volunteering Experience:

Victor Owuor has a disposition for being empathetic and this has seen him immerse in a myriad of community services. He has been involved in institution based as well as youth led tree planting initiatives. Notably, he has planted trees in the Karura Forest in Nairobi and in Suswa Girls High School in addition to ornamental trees he has planted in his homestead. His commitment to voluntary service has also seen him pay visits to children's homes, washing clothes and cleaning compound therein. He has also visited homes for the aged in Kasarani where he helped in preparing meals for them. Furthermore, through extension programmes organized by the University, he indulged in metorship programmes targeting teenagers in primary schools in his neighbourhood,.

Victor Owuor has two years of experience in environmental management, specifically focusing on forest management and conservation and on industrial safety and environment. Currently, Victor is an Assistant Secretary at Busara Ni Sisi, a slum-based youth organization where he focuses on developing, documenting, and reporting the group's activities and mobilizing slum youth to indulge in financial inclusion activities ranging from table banking to emergency funding, in addition to waste management programs adopted by the group. Victor also has over six years of experience in voluntary community service, focusing on conservation activities, community extension programs, and visits to children's homes through youth-led initiatives. Victor holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies (Community Development) from Kenyatta University, where he focused on the adoption of alternative energy in Kenya's tertiary institutions. Victor is driven by the urge to see sustainable communities and a healthy environment through better management and administration of public resources. By working with these communities, he envisions a self-reliant planet.

Volunteering Experience

Victor Owuor has a disposition for being empathetic and this has seen him immerse in a myriad of community services. He has been involved in institution based as well as youth led tree planting initiatives. Notably, he has planted trees in the Karura Forest in Nairobi and in Suswa Girls High School in addition to ornamental trees he has planted in his homestead. His commitment to voluntary service has also seen him pay visits to children's homes, washing clothes and cleaning compound therein. He has also visited homes for the aged in Kasarani where he helped in preparing meals for them. Furthermore, through extension programmes organized by the University, he indulged in metorship programmes targeting teenagers in primary schools in his neighbourhood,.